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Line of Departure is a
semi-professional quarterly wargaming magazine published by Jim
Werbaneth, and published continuously since October 1991. The
editorial of that premier issue declared its purpose to be
"to help the reader get more out of his wargaming,"
through the presentation of professional-quality strategy and
analysis articles, along with reviews, scenarios, variants, and
expansions. In addition, the editorial promised that the full
spectrum of wargames would be covered in the magazine, on all
levels of simulation; ancients to modern, microtactical to grand
strategic, and everything in between, with the occasional foray
into science fiction and alternate history.

Since then, Line of Departure has
evolved and grown. In time, reviews became increasingly
important, and are now a primary focus of the publication. A
recurring feature called "The Alternative Press"
reviews other self-published magazines. Also, after an absence of
three and a half years, strategy games for the personal computer
returned to Line of Departure's pages, and now appear
regularly.

In addition, OnLine of Departure Support was inaugurated in early 1998. This is a free
download area for board game supplements and computer game scenarios, working in tandem with
Line of Departure articles.

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ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

Jim Werbaneth is the publisher, editor, and
primary writer of Line of Departure. He was born in 1961
in Pittsburgh, and has lived in Western Pennsylvania almost all
of his life. He is a graduate of Shady Side Academy and Duquesne
University, where he earned a BA in political science in 1982 and
an MA in the same field in 1985, with a Master's thesis titled The
Ideological Foundations of the Salvadoran Revolution. Then in August
2016, he earned a second Master of Arts with honors from
American Military
University, this one in military history with a concentration on World War
II.

His involvement in wargaming began in 1972,
when his unsuspecting grandparents bought him a copy of Avalon
Hill's 1914. In 1985 he had his first article published,
an analysis of landbased airpower in Flat Top, appearing
in The General. That led to more projects for Avalon
Hill's house organ, especially a series of historical and
scenario articles on Firepower. One of these, on the
Nicaraguan Contras, won the Editor's Choice Award for the best
free-lance article of 1987.

He has also written for most other
professional wargaming magazines Command, C3i, Fire
& Movement, and Strategy & Tactics. His work
has appeared as well in such leading amateur publications as Paper
Wars (during its amateur period), The Canadian Wargamers Journal and Cry
"Havoc!".

Until January 2015, he was the staff developer for
Turning Point
Simulations, a new company dedicated producing high-quality,
systemically-accessible boardgames on the twenty most decisive battles in
history. Additionally, he designs his own electronically-delivered
desktop-published boardgames, starting with
Rommel at Gazala.

Jim's first published wargame design was Inchon,
the issue game in Command 9 (March-April 1991), which was
a co-winner of the Charles S. Roberts Award as the year's best
post-World War II game of the year. Three years later, GMT
published his game on Operation Sealion, Britain Stands Alone. More
recently, LnL
published a professional version of
Rommel at Gazala, and TPS his game on the Austro-Prussian War in Bohemia,
The Sadowa Campaign, early in 2017.

PURCHASING LINE OF DEPARTURE

Line of Departure is published four
times per year. An annual subscription costs $30.00 in the United
States and Canada, and $38.00 elsewhere. Single copies of all
issues are available, at cost of $8.50 to American and Canadian
customers and $11.00 to the rest of the world. Pennsylvania
residents add 7% sales tax for single issues only; state sales
tax does not apply to subscriptions.

Foreign orders, including those from
Canada, must be in American funds drawn on the US bank. Write
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